Ida-Virumaa Vocational Education Centre has been using VITS for a year and is ready to share its success story with us.

Organization profile

Number of employees: 271

Field of activity: Vocational education institution

Location: Narva, Sillamäe, Jõhvi, Ida-Virumaa

What problems existed before implementing VITS?

Since Ida-Virumaa Vocational Education Centre is located in several places, their main problem was the lack of an overview – there was no central place to quickly find information about instructions, guides, personal protective equipment, incidents, and health checks. Documents always had to be collected separately for the three study locations, as a result of which the data might not have been fresh and was also not quickly accessible.

What has improved since implementing VITS?

For Ida-Virumaa Vocational Education Centre, the management of the entire work environment has become faster, more transparent, and monitorable in real time. For them, the data from the three study locations is three clicks away, and they can be sure that the data is fresh.

What are the main functions that are used?

They actively use employee instruction and the storage of safety guides. In addition, they use the incidents function to report on the condition of the work environment. They also monitor activities related to occupational health in VITS. The quality specialist is pleased with the comprehensive dashboards, through which the entire occupational health and safety situation in the company can be monitored.

How have you gotten the employees to use the new system?

For the employees, the new program was unfamiliar at first, but the constant communication from the occupational health and safety specialist helped to implement the program very well. Today the entire instruction process – from notification to confirmation – has become very short. In their organization with 300 employees, the implementation took 6 months.

Why is dealing with occupational health and safety important for them?

In a vocational education center, in addition to professional knowledge, it is important to teach correct and safe working methods right from the very beginning. However, correct methods can only be instructed by competent teachers. Teachers, in turn, reflect the values of their work environment, which the school carries as an organization. Therefore, as a school, we strive to be exemplary employers ourselves, so that our employees can support the teaching of safe and secure working methods in vocational education in every specialty. Safe working methods and awareness of the work environment are a value and a knowledge that is foundational in every field. Professional knowledge changes over time and we do not know what the future professions of these students will be in 30 years, but we can be sure that the basic principles of safety will support them throughout their entire careers.